In the process of trying to open what I thought was an #ancient
document (in .tex) - I tripped over a world I was only dimly
aware of: It's the answer to the question: *Why do all academic,
scientific papers and PDFs have the same look?" And I found my
answer: They use something like this instead of Microsoft Word:
http://www.lyx.org/ I downloaded this beautiful, 2015
monstrosity: It's not a Word Processor, even though it looks
like one at first. It can do stuff I didn't know you could
automate on paper or screen. It also exports to HTML and PDF in
several different ways, can help you manage bibliographies,
references, and all that academic / scientific stuff. And the
fonts they use? Wow... they really are beautiful. I get so used
to jagged edges (I kinda like jagged edges - I'm always reminded
of 80s video games when I'm online) - that I forgot what really
smooth type looks like. Anyway, there you go. I can open my
ancient document that I snagged from an ftp server that's been
in operation since at least 1992 - in the ancient days before
the WWW - that contains a 23 year old code that I'm going to try
to run in 2015. Why? Because.?
